The Predator (reboot)

Sad Professor · 09-07-2018 02:30PM

Comments from the actors would suggest Black was definitely behind the reshoots:

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-predator-reshoots/

Three quarters of the third act is probably 20-25 minutes worth. That's nothing these days when practically whole movies and television pilots get re-shot.

Mr E · 31-08-2018 05:39PM

Just a few weeks away now. Final trailer below, looks nice and gory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJ2LVVgqVo

Gbear · 31-08-2018 06:25PM

I kinda stopped paying attention after the first trailer. It seemed to be belabouring the sciency stuff but hopefully that's more indicative of the tone.

Interested again.

Slydice · 31-08-2018 06:29PM

lol at the comments "transformers without the transformers"

siblers · 31-08-2018 08:42PM

This is the film Suicide Squad should have been!

Agent Coulson · 31-08-2018 09:42PM

Oh ye.

We took a vote.

Kiith · 31-08-2018 09:46PM

Why is the Predator like 15 feet tall? Is this yet another variant like in the last one?

artvanderlay · 31-08-2018 09:51PM

Good to see Thomas Jane in that trailer, I didn't know he was in this. Hopefully he won't be killed off too soon; I'd prefer to see him as the lead to be honest.

Defunkd · 31-08-2018 10:32PM

Kiith wrote: »

Why is the Predator like 15 feet tall? Is this yet another variant like in the last one?

It was hybridized by scientists i think. Like Jurassic Park...

brianregan09 · 31-08-2018 10:38PM

This is more based on the comics than the previous films can't wait

s8n · 01-09-2018 10:48AM

looks a little tongue in cheek ??

BillyHasMates · 01-09-2018 02:49PM

I'm not expecting much. I'm a massive fan of the first 2 movies but really disliked the Predator related movies made since then. The trailers for this one looks like it's going to be more of the same. A big focus on action, stunt work and special effects with the characters trying to prove who is the more badass. Definitely a different direction to the first movies where they focused more on building the tension surrounding the Predator's appearance and having the characters genuinely ****ting it.

mikhail · 01-09-2018 08:09PM

It's very hard to continue in that vein once the viewer is very familiar with the monster though, something that's left the Alien movies pretty rudderless too. I'm somewhat hopeful because of Shane Black, but very cautiously so.

BillyHasMates · 01-09-2018 08:22PM

mikhail wrote: »

It's very hard to continue in that vein once the viewer is very familiar with the monster though, something that's left the Alien movies pretty rudderless too. I'm somewhat hopeful because of Shane Black, but very cautiously so.

Yea I agree. I just hope they don't go full on with the unbelievably ridiculous stunt work / special effect choreography formula dressed up with lame dialogue and bad acting. In other words that it has a bit more than the generic modern day action film.

homerun_homer · 03-09-2018 09:46AM

Defunkd wrote: »

It was hybridized by scientists i think. Like Jurassic Park...

Shane Black said in an interview it's like the cheating, steroid/juicer version of the Predators, so I don't think this guy is a lab experiment.

Padraig Mor · 03-09-2018 11:26AM

Can't say I agree with the optimism here - that trailer looks like pure scutter to me......

MisterAnarchy · 03-09-2018 03:41PM

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Can't say I agree with the optimism here - that trailer looks like pure scutter to me......

The tone is all off ,its like a comedy ,I was half expecting Jason Statham to turn up and beat the Predator up with his bare fists .

The reshoots look like the kid storyline has been completely deleted.

homerun_homer · 03-09-2018 04:20PM

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

The reshoots look like the kid storyline has been completely deleted.

The reshoots were to reshoot some setpieces, particularly the finale, to change it from daytime to night time, as the predator in action just wasn't as effective in the day time.

verycool · 03-09-2018 04:26PM

homerun_homer wrote: »

The reshoots were to reshoot some setpieces, particularly the finale, to change it from daytime to night time, as the predator in action just wasn't as effective in the day time.

Is that just a nicer way of saying "it looked like sh*t"? :pac:

Don't really like the comedy here... Almost too cocky or try-hard (the Hunter line in the trailer).

Then again it's a feckin' Predator movie so it's not really meant to be high brow either.

homerun_homer · 04-09-2018 10:00AM

verycool wrote: »

Is that just a nicer way of saying "it looked like sh*t"? :pac:

100% :pac:

Hopefully it's not be as outright comedic as that last trailer makes out. Maybe marketing just went nuts on the comedy side of things, which is a bad move given you want a Predator movie to be bad a$$, with some touches of humour.

razorblunt · 04-09-2018 10:20AM

homerun_homer wrote: »

100% :pac:

Hopefully it's not be as outright comedic as that last trailer makes out. Maybe marketing just went nuts on the comedy side of things, which is a bad move given you want a Predator movie to be bad a$$, with some touches of humour.

They've got that Key from Peele & Key so I think it might be heavy on comedy.
I can't take that guy seriously at all, ever since I saw him on one of those "Pets do the funniest things" shows.

verycool · 04-09-2018 10:23AM

razorblunt wrote: »

They've got that Key from Peele & Key so I think it might be heavy on comedy.
I can't take that guy seriously at all, ever since I saw him on one of those "Pets do the funniest things" shows.

Neither can I.

Keep expecting him to come out with "So I said *whispers* BIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!" throughout the trailer. I've been conditioned!

Beach Fuzz · 04-09-2018 12:22PM

razorblunt wrote: »

They've got that Key from Peele & Key so I think it might be heavy on comedy.
I can't take that guy seriously at all, ever since I saw him on one of those "Pets do the funniest things" shows.

verycool wrote: »

Neither can I.

Keep expecting him to come out with "So I said *whispers* BIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!" throughout the trailer. I've been conditioned!

That's down to your own perceptions of him though. He's just one of an ensemble cast of about nine or ten so I wouldn't say it'll be heavy on comedy either. Obviously a few one-liners which is standard for Shane Black, but that's all.

I can't wait for it! Big change from when the first trailer dropped. Very underwhelming. Hopefully they've got something here.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 04-09-2018 04:14PM

is it just me, or does every trailer for this seem like its for completely seperate films? one was horror, another hinted at human / predator hybrids, and now we've this suicide squad effort?

and was this film titled 'predators' at one point?

BillyHasMates · 04-09-2018 05:25PM

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

is it just me, or does every trailer for this seem like its for completely seperate films? one was horror, another hinted at human / predator hybrids, and now we've this suicide squad effort?

and was this film titled 'predators' at one point?

Judging by the last trailer suicide squad effort looks to be what we are going to get. Looks like same old action type film to me possibly with added gore. I was hoping for something close to the same type of tense and dark atmosphere to the first 2 films where the characters are genuinely ****ting themselves. Although maybe the fact the final trailer is accompanied by a rap song is ruining my idea of what the film will be like.

Beach Fuzz · 04-09-2018 08:27PM

BillyHasMates wrote: »

Judging by the last trailer suicide squad effort looks to be what we are going to get. Looks like same old action type film to me possibly with added gore. I was hoping for something close to the same type of tense and dark atmosphere to the first 2 films where the characters are genuinely ****ting themselves. Although maybe the fact the final trailer is accompanied by a rap song is ruining my idea of what the film will be like.

I think that only works though when you're dealing with something of an unknown entity like in the original Predator. There's only so far you can carry that before you're just waiting for the Predator to arrive on the screen.

So now I'm just hoping for a really good action movie where they expand the Predator universe somewhat as opposed to a sci-fi horror/thriller.

Beechwoodspark · 04-09-2018 08:29PM

Dunno if I will go but to do a successful reboot there needs to be unrelenting dread, huge suspense and genuine fear

Sal Butamol · 04-09-2018 10:31PM

Looks like a pile of ****e.

The "crazy" guy on the bus sounds like the kind of annoying gimp who would write his job listing on his facebook page as "Full time Mad Bastard"

Defunkd · 04-09-2018 11:45PM

Including rap/hip-hop in the trailer totally takes away any sense of dread or fear that should accompany an ET predator. Already i want them all to die but the blond guy won't, nor will the hot scientist chick (who he's going to bang by the end of it).

I guess those 'dogs' will kill two or three people before being killed off?

I've pro.ised to treat someone to see this, so i'm going but i'm not excited.

yourdeadwright · 05-09-2018 10:56AM

It looks like they haven't got the tone right,
As someone said even the trailer the using Hip hop ois wrong , you should create a feeling of dread and hopelessness when it comes Predator,
I find it mental how they keep getting it wrong with predator, its easy to get right keep it simply, let the Predator do the rest ,